Under Yan Qingge's arrangement, on the morning of the second day, a thin coffin board was transported into Yan's house.

Coming in with the car, there are also some tributes, white cloths, incense candles, sacks and other things used in the mourning hall, which can be said to be readily available.

In the homes of ordinary people, these things are definitely enough for funerals. But after Yan Shuyu saw the coffin, her eyes almost erupted with fire.

The use of coffins is particular, the best materials are made of gold and jade, painted with lacquer, of course Aunt Hai is not qualified.

But even with wood, there is a big difference. Just take the use of wood as an example, the best coffin is made of four whole logs, called "four corners", again there are eight corners, ten corners, etc., and the common people generally use twelve corners.

Who knows how many pieces of wood were used, only the inferior people who have no money in their hands and want their families to settle down will buy this kind of coffin shop with the cheapest price and half sold for the coffin - but in the end, it is a coffin, which is better than burying a mat in a roll.

Yan Shuyu has only heard of eating hundreds of meals and wearing hundreds of clothes, but it is the first time to see this kind of "hundred family coffins".

Aunt Hai is a noble concubine from a white family, and Yan Qingge actually treated Aunt Hai like this by taking charge of the family.

Yan Shuyu's face was distorted, and her complexion was blue and red. Aunt Hai is dead, can she still survive because of these things Yan Qingge has done? Yan Qingge was clearly slapping her Yan Shuyu in the face.

"Ask someone to go out and buy a new coffin." Yan Shuyu's mind was dizzy, and she ordered Su Xin.

Su Xin bowed her head and said yes, and obediently took the silver and went out.

After a while, Su Xin returned to Mingxinzhai and fell to her knees with a thud: "Second Miss, the people from the Xinguo Mansion at the door are watching and won't let you out." ”

Yan Shuyu's face turned pale, she thought about it for a while, and said, "Although the monks don't lie, but for the sake of my mother, I can only tell a lie once." You just say that you were sent out by the eldest lady, and they will release them. ”

Su Xin trembled and said, "Second Miss, the slave has already said it. But those people said that now the eldest lady's people go out to run errands, and they have to take the pair of cards in her house, and they can only be allowed to go if they are right. ”

"What?" Yan Shuyu couldn't believe it.

Last night, she specifically inquired about the days when the Xinguo Mansion surrounded the door, the people of the Yan Mansion wanted to go out, as long as they said that it was Yan Qingge's people, the Xinguo Mansion would turn a blind eye and let them go, but today they want to have a pair of cards.

The slave asked, it was because each courtyard was building a small kitchen, and there were a lot of craftsmen from outside, so don't match the cards. Now in addition to our yard, the small kitchens elsewhere have been covered, and there are few people in and out, so the right cards are activated......" Su Xin's voice is getting smaller and smaller.

It turned out that yesterday not only Yan Xiuyu explained to the people of the Xinguo Mansion and told them not to release people indiscriminately, Yan Qingge also thought that Yan Shuyu would take advantage of the loopholes, and saw that the small kitchens in each courtyard were almost covered, and sent the workers home, completely taking charge of the Yan family, not only the people who came in and out needed to get the right cards from her, but other things also needed to be reported to her before deciding.

Yan Shuyu was deflated, clenched her fists, and her long nails stuck on the line of Buddha beads, and she broke a string of long beads, and scattered to the ground.

Since Yan Shuyu broke her appearance, Yan Shuyu has lost her temper for three days, and Su Xin has followed Yan Shuyu to serve, worrying about her life all the time.

Qingxingyuan, Yan Qingge received a report from his mother-in-law, and only then did he go to the gate to go out, and he pretended to be Yan Qingge's person, who was recognized and stopped.

Su Xin is the big girl next to Yan Shuyu, Yan Qingge listened to it, and smiled slightly: "It's good to stop!" ”

Of course, Yan Qingge knew what Yan Shuyu was asking people to go out, either for the coffin or to buy ice.

She took a sip of tea and said, "Did you tell my sister about the seven-day suspension?" ”

"The old slave hasn't informed the second lady yet, so let's go." The mother-in-law kowtowed to Yan Qingge smartly, and then said: "The account book on Zhuangzi has been delivered, it is this summer's harvest, does the eldest lady want to see it?" ”

Yan Qingge shook his head: "Send Han Youju, my father will come back to show him." ”

Wait for the woman to go out. Ruyi said: "Miss, the master is not here, Aunt Chu and Aunt Caifeng don't care about anything, it is better for you to take charge of housework and practice your hands." ”

Yan Qingge had been working in the Xinguo Mansion for so many years before his rebirth, and he didn't need to practice in a small place like the Yan family at all. She smiled: "Why do I work so hard to save the family business for the Yan family." When I get married in the future, the Yan family will not give me a penny. Moreover, King Yan's Mansion has its own housekeeper's account room, and Lord Yan's brother and sister-in-law are still there, can it be my turn. ”

As soon as Ruyi heard it, it was also the same truth, so he didn't say much.

Before the master and servant had been idle for a long time, Xunshuang ran over and said, "Eldest Miss, the second lady led someone here, saying that she wanted to ask you for the right cards and go out to do errands." ”

"Nope." Yan Qingge waved his hand: "Let her keep her spirit in peace." ”

Yan Shuyu didn't expect Yan Qingge to even bother to find an excuse to give her small shoes to wear so naked. She had prepared a thousand reasons why she had to go out, but she didn't even have a chance to say it.

She waited at the door, refusing to leave, and two stout mothers-in-law came out, with a smile on their faces: "Second Miss, let's go back, don't leave Aunt Hai alone, how desolate." Then he set her up and went to the mourning hall.

For the first time in her life, Yan Shuyu understood what it meant to be called "heaven and earth".

On the third day of the suspension, a mother-in-law came to report that almost all the meals sent by Mingxinzhai were taken out as they were, and no one was willing to put down the chopsticks.

It's not that there's something wrong with the food, it's that Aunt Hai's corpse is starting to smell outside, Mingxinzhai is not big, and no one can eat it when it smells like that.

On the afternoon of this day, Yan Xiuyu came.

Seeing Yan Xiuyu, Yan Qingge smiled and said, "What are you doing?" ”

Yan Xiuyu looked in good spirits and said, "I'm here to tell you that your father has found it." ”

Yan Qingge was stunned for a moment and said, "Where is he?" ”

"He bought a small yard in the outer city, raised two women, and lived a decent life, if I hadn't investigated your aunt's case, I wouldn't have found out." Yan Xiuyu said.

"It's an outer room." Yan Qingge sneered. Yan Songnian is really getting more and more shameless, and he even does this kind of thing. There are two concubines in the family who are not satisfied, and they still have to raise an outer room.

Yan Xiuyu said: "Your father didn't leave Beijing left or right, and Zhu Mao's case had nothing to do with him, but he didn't go home because he was afraid." But your aunt's case was tried for something unusual. ”

"What's that?"

"The girl named CRBT committed suicide by taking arsenic, and the source of arsenic was Hai's Pharmacy. Her whole family works in the Hai family's pharmacy, and she herself is not a slave of the Yan family, but the Hai family. However, we found new evidence in the Hai family, and when Yan Shuyu returned to the Yan family, she brought a lot of arsenic. ”

"This matter, it was my sister who did it?" Although Yan Qingge asked, there was not much surprise in his tone.

She had vaguely guessed that it might be Yan Shuyu's hand, because the timing of Yan Shuyu's return was too coincidental, and her performance was so abrupt, to say that she had nothing to do with Aunt Hai's death, Yan Qingge didn't believe it.

But Yan Qingge never understood Yan Shuyu's motives. Aunt Hai is already like this, if she doesn't die, what good will it do her?

"You should be more wary of this sister of your family. In the past few days, we have continued to collect evidence, and eighty percent of this matter was done by her. can still do it to her biological mother, this woman is really terrible. ”

Yan Qingge didn't know Yan Shuyu's personality, she nodded and said, "I knew that she wasn't a good person, otherwise I wouldn't have disliked her so much." ”

Yan Xiuyu actually didn't have anything else to do, when Yan Songnian was at home in the past, he usually wrote to Yan Qingge about this kind of news. But since Yan Songnian was not at home, he came a lot.

Yan Qingge accompanied him for more than an hour, and Yan Xiuyu reluctantly left.

In the evening, Yan Qingge was embroidering a wedding dress in the house, and she was going to embroider a dress of birds, beasts, flowers and fruits, which was very complicated, and it would take at least two years of hard work.

Suddenly, there was a dog barking outside. Yan Qingge heard that their calls were wrong, put down the embroidery, and walked out.

When I walked out of the door, I saw dozens of small dogs yelling and chasing a woman in monk's robe all over the yard.

The big of these dogs is five months old, and the small ones are four months old, because they eat well, and their aunts are also very attentive to their training, and their body shapes are very different from when they first came in, and the tallest ones are already more than Yan Qingge's calves.

Yan Qingge saw at a glance that the woman was Yan Shuyu, and sighed: "How did she come in." ”

Xunshuang hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Eldest Miss, Second Miss asked someone to move a ladder and climb in through the side wall, so that the dogs at home saw it and chased after it." ”

Yan Shuyu was surrounded by the group of dogs to the lake. There are also two tallest dogs, one left and one right, jumping slightly, pushing Yan Shuyu's waist, and with a plop, she fell into the lake.

The water of this Tan Lake in Qingxing Yuan is not deep, even if it goes to the deepest depth, it can only reach the neck of a person, and the place near the shore of the lake is even shallower. But because there are lotus flowers and aquatic plants planted in it all the year round, there is a lot of silt, and there are some fine rockery stones that fall at some point.

Yan Shuyu struggled a few times and drank several mouthfuls of dirty water before standing up, the veil on her face fell off, revealing a face with two red marks, like an embarrassed drowning chicken, and she didn't dare to go ashore, because there was a group of dogs watching her on the shore.

Yan Qingge walked to the lake, Yan Shuyu's eyes were sad, and she said loudly: "Sister, why are you hurting me so much? ”

"Oh? You climbed over the wall into my yard and were chased by dogs. Yan Qingge glanced at Yan Shuyu: "I haven't prosecuted you for uninvited entry yet." ”

"This is all forced by my sister. If you're willing to see me, I don't need to climb over the wall to get in. Yan Shuyu wiped her face and plucked a leaf from her hair: "The weather is hot, why is my sister so ruthless and refuses to let my mother go to the ground." ”

Only then did Yan Qingge understand that it had only been a day, and Yan Shuyu couldn't stand the smell of the mourning hall.

She said lightly: "What does my sister mean by this?" Aren't you one of the four talented women in the capital, and you have a lot of experience in filial piety? The filial daughter in the biography of the daughters, for the sake of her parents, even her life can be sacrificed, and her sister does not accompany Aunt Hai for a few more days, so she complains that she is tired. ”

Yan Shuyu's eyes were full of tears: "But now it's my mother who is offended, and I can't bear to see her like this." ”

"I've heard that arsenic can preserve corpses, but I don't know if it's real or fake." Yan Qingge said abruptly, squinting at Yan Shuyu.

Yan Shuyu's face changed greatly, and she stared at Yan Qingge: "You...... What do you say......"

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(Tianjin)